 The charms that she wielded before ; Nor knows the foul worm that he frets The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings which dizen the proud?...  The Quarterly Review - Page 383edited by - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Harrison Patillo Griffith - 1911 - 280 pages
...skin which but yesterday fools could adore. For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of Pride, The trappings...neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. To Riches? Alas! 'tis in vain; Who hid in their turns have... | |
 | 1820 - 494 pages
...yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness .1 held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to th« purple of Pride— The trappings which dizen the proud...laid aside — And here's neither dress nor adornment nllow'd, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of theibroud! To Riches ' Alas ! His In vain—... | |
 | Young women's Christian assoc - 186 pages
...is the purple of pride ? ' ' The trappings which 'dizen the proud " are gone for ever, and "There's neither dress nor adornment allowed. But the long winding-sheet and the fringe of the shroud." Where are riches now? Left, like all the other things of earth, at the portals of the tomb. " Here,... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland - 1867 - 514 pages
...The skin which but yesterday fools could adore, For the smoothness it held or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings...neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding sheet and the fringe of the shroud. 397 To riches ? Alas ! 'tis in vain : Who hid, in their... | |
 | 1820 - 684 pages
...neither dress nor adornment allow'd, / (¿ill the long winding sheet; and the fringe of the shroud ! To riches ? alas ! 'tis in vain, Who hid in their turns have been hid ; The treasures are »¡uamlered again ; Bui here in the »ra>e are all metals forbid, But the tinsel lual shone ou the... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1844 - 274 pages
...skin which, but yesterday, fools could adore, For the smoothness it held, or the tint which it wore. Shall we build to the purple of pride, The trappings which dizen the proud ?j Alas ! they are all laid aside, And here's neither dress nor adornment allowed, But the long winding-sheet,... | |
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